Posted on 09/20/2015 10:55:00 AM PDT by ebb tide
Its only been two and a half years since Francis assumed the chair of St. Peter, yet hes already compiled an entire dossiers worth of . . . interesting . . . incidents.
For instance, the Holy Father seems to have a habit of appearing to endorse all sorts of left-wing political causes. There was the time he posed with environmental activists holding an anti-fracking T-shirt. And the time he posed for pictures holding a crucifix made from a hammer and a sickle. And the time he held up a poster calling for the British to hand the Falkland Islands back to Argentina.
I've heard about those life-sized cut-outs posted in many Catholic churches. It borders on idolatry.
Never heard of it before with former popes, Catholic popes that is.
Oh, good grief....
It’s not theirs to sell.
Well we do have an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
Cardboard cutouts of the pope also tend towards the farcical side of this threads question.
We saw in U.S. Pope Francis incarnated in the classic corrupt Latin American demagogue faking extreme humility to cover a totalitarian mindset. For Francis, the U.S. and the capitalism system are the main responsible for the exploitation and misery in Latin America. In U.S. he condemned the death penalty of vicious criminals who enjoyed so much protection that the law conferred almost unlimited appeals taking decades to finally be applied the sentence.
In Cuba we saw another Francis, despicable, heartless, unmoral, cynic, making fun of the Cuban tragedy while embracing the Castro brothers responsible for the death of tens of thousands of innocent Cubans, and the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands political prisoners, while more of 20% of the population was forced to go in exile-more of 30,000 died trying to cross the Florida straits in makeshift rafts in their quest for freedom. In Cuba Francis did not dare to condemn the death penalty condoning with his cowardly silence the thousands of political prisoners murdered by the Stalinist regime for the crime of demanding freedom and respect for the human rights of the enslaved Cuban people. After being judged by Kangaroo tribunals al style of Stalins, the Cubans patriots were put to death by Castros infamous firing squads in less than 24 hours, many were martyrs of the faith that died shouting Long life Christ the King! and Viva Cuba libre.!
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